CX 51 June 2010
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EDITORIAL
6 Good bad teaching • More gender equity • Hat’s off to Bueno Vista crew at Enmore
NEWS
8 AV industry healthy
8 Show costs to rocket as new industrial award bites
10 Touring crew shortchanged under new award
10 Strand and Selecon cement union
12 Work for free curtailed from July 12 ISE wrap
14 AV market grows as broadcast stalls
16 Soundcraft Vil – small but big
16 Christie MicroTiles
18 Vale Simon Leadley
19 Vale Ross ‘Bullbar’ Hunter
20 Two major industry events collaborate on joint positioning 20 ARX adds switcher
20 Australian XTA distribution change
21 Yamaha announces “LS9 School”
FEATURES
22 AC/DC Depart Without Compromise
30 WOMAD 2010
38 New Approach For Curzon Hall
44 Far Too Bright! LED brightness and over-lighting considered
46 Console of the Future: What will new LX consoles look like?
50 Mastering the Past: How Stephen Bruel revived his band’s 1990s master-tapes
CX MEGA TEST
54 RSS REAC Digital Snake System
56 Prism Sound Orpheus
57 Sennheiser e965
58 Hall Research VHD-180 Scan Converter
60 JBL LSR2328 Monitors + MSCl Controller
62 Sony HVR-HDlOOOP Camera
64 Book review: Concert Lighting by James Moody
64 Book review: A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steven Louis Shelly
65 Leon Audio PowerPoint Controller
REGULARS
28 Richard Cadena: Measuring an electrical system’s power factor explained
34 History: Highlights from Connections Magazine May 1995 & May 2000
36 Dr Danger! A Mackie 24-channel mixer is run over
42 Duncan Fry: Back in Black T-shirts and limitations placed on support acts
53 OH&S Agony Aunt with Julius Grafton: Realities of the Live Performance Award 2010
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